Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. If every republican will do his duty on election day, Hon. C. E. Creager will carry the District from 8000 to 12000 If every rep do his duty day, Hon. C will carry from 8000 to COPYRIGHT NOT BY AIR DEN SMITH. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT C. E. Creager, republican nominee for congress from this district, whom Col. Douglas said was the Abe Lincoln of the third congressional district, is so much better material for congress than Davenport that he will not only carry the republican vote solid, but will receive those of many intelligent democrats who realize the utter incompetency of the present incumbent to reach a more exalted position tha na "me too" puppet. What excuse has any man in this district to offer as a justification for voting for Mr. Davenport? Manifestly none that will for a moment be accepted as logical or sound. It is true that those politicians who place "regularity" in politics above everything else can easily find their justification, but how about trat vastly larger body of men who do not look to politics to fill their larder or make them a living? It is a notorious fact that Mr. Davenport can accomplish little more as a congressman than to draw his salary and fill his seat. He has been tried, and he has accomplished nothing. If he had been of the majority party he, no doubt, would have a different record. But re is not of the majority party in the present congress, and he will not be of the majority party in the next congress. Why, then, should the people of the third district of Oklahoma stultify themselves by sending a representative who can not be expected to accomplish one single thing? If Mr. Creager is elected the third Oklahoma district will figure in the constructive legislation of the first congress under President Taft. We may reasonably expect important changes in the interior department, matters relating to this state, important leg- --- publican will on election E. Creager the District o 12000 islation regarding river navigation and many other things. The congressionalmatter is of such vast importance to the business and industrial interests of the district that the World hopes the voters, regardless of political affiliations, will consider carefully before casting their ballots. —Tulsa World. COPYRIGHT, 1906 BY HARRIS & EWING FOR VICE PRESIDENT JAMES S. SHFRMAN "My name is James Newton. I was a member of the 25th Infantry, Company D., at the time of the so-called Brownsville riot, and I am one of the soldiers that was discharged under the order of the president, in October, 1906. As a soldier I am familiar with the military rules. I know that Judge Taft is not responsible for the discharge of the soldiers. I served in the 25th Infantry in the Philippine Islands during the time that Judge Taft was Governor of the islands and know that the soldiers regard him as one of the best friends they ever had. I know that the soldiers still so regard him. I believe the the discharged soldiers desire Judge Taft to be elected President, because we believe that he will do the fair thing for us. The soldiers have nothing to gain by having Mr. Bryan elected President and from what we know of Judge Taft, if he is elected President, we are satisfied that the fair thing will be done by us all. I served in Cuba during the war and was in the battles of San Juan and La Cuasina. My home is at present at 3540 Calumet Ave. I have been here since the 27th of November,1906." It is clear to anyone who has observed the tendency of affairs during this campaign that the election of Mr. C. E. Creager is of vital importance to all the people of the third congressional district, and of especial importance to the people of Musko- October, 30, 1908. Can't miss it.A cross in the circle under the Eagle x Only a few weeks ago Congressman T. E. Burton, chairman of the River and Harbor committee, paid a visit to this city, and was entertained by the citizens and especially by the members of the Commercial club. While that meeting was non-partisan. Mr. Burton made it very clear that he was here at the request of his personal friend, Mr. Creager. He also said in no uncertain tones, that he believed we were entitled to an appropriation that would put the Arkansas river in navigable condition. Since his return home he has been more than anxious about tre political condition of this district; so much so that he has written Mr. Creager congratulating him upon the good news and bright prospects of his election, and requested Mr. Creager to notify him mby telegram at the earliest possible moment the result of the election in this district. It is now up to the people of Muskogee to decide between blind partisanship and that they can clearly see to be their duty to their city and themselves. Anyone at all conversant with the situation knows that with Mr. Creager in Congress, we stand a much better chance of getting the appropriation that we heed, than we would with any democrat, and especially with Mr. Davenport who has demonstrated his ability to do nothing. We believe that the citizens of Muskogee will lay aside their politics and improve this, their golden opportunity forgetting for themselves that which will make for alt that which nature intended, the commercial city of the great southwest. There is no other section of the country or any other city that for one moment would let political conditions stand between them and the goal they so much desire, and we expect that when the result of the election is announced, that the citizens of Muskogee and Muskogee county and the third congressional district will have said to the congress of the United States, that we are equal to the emergency and we have done our duty, and it is up to you. The only thing that can defeat us in this desire for national assistance and national appropriation is your failure to vote for gee. the man who has influence with Mr. Burton and with the party in power. Lay aside your position and help your city and your country and vote for Mr. C. E. Creager for congress. WALTER M. FARMER Mr. Walter M. Farmer, who was appointed a member of the speakers' bureau is a personal friend of the Hon. Chas. Nagel and has been for the last twenty years. While a student in the law department at Washington University of St. Louis, Mo.. he first met Mr. Nagel who was then professor of corporations in that school. It might be added that Mr. Farmer was the only colored student in the school at the time and is the only one who ever graduated from the law department, of Washington University. Having been beside national grand secretary of the United Brothers of Friendship and because of his membership in various other secret organizations, together with his reputation as a lawyer gave him a national standing which peculiarly fitted him for the position he holds with the national committee. The work under the present management has assumed, as it should, a national character, both in scope and in operation: It is for this reason that the recognition in this appointment was given to no particular locality but was made upon the broader and more comprehensive basis. The work of Mr. Farmer's department has been conducted upon a National scale. Every large gathering of colored people held since last August has been visited by representative speakers sent from his department and resolutions have been passed endorsing the Republican ticket. Newspapers in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma have been actively engaged in publishing matter sent out from this department in helping to create sentiment in favor of the ticket. Work done through Mr. Farmer's department has received the highest commendation from thos in charge of the Eastern headquarters of the national Republican committee. An effort has been made, in carrying out the work of this department, to keep down all petty jealousies and factional strife. Eat your breakfrst after you vote. No 3 Muskogee Cimeter. Ww. , FWIND, Matton MUSKOGEE, oe OKLA. K ete Ge ake: Some years ago a physician wrote a pamphlet entiiled, “Emotional Prodi gality,” in which he enumerated the ils of mind and body likely to follow the demonstrative affection bestowed on babies, and entreated a calm re- pression of the mother’s Jove and the father’s joy where the infant was concerned, The warning of the doctor has been repeated and emphasized, until to-day, in some homes, if is as bad form to hug or kiss the baby as it is to smash the china, A mother full of the new theory forbids anyone to speak to her baby, much Jess to play with him, Such a mother explained to w witty friend that she wished her small son to be “a perfect animal.” “That Is all very well, my dear lady,” replied the friend, “but you are at present contriving for hiin to become u perfect vegetable!” Somewhere be tween the over-excitement of an emo- (onal devotion and the over-vepression of such pseudo-seience there Hes the happy middle ground of loving wel: come for the newcomers to the world. They will find it cool and silent enough, Let them find it warm and tender at first. One who watches an Italian mother knows where the great painters found their models for “Ma donna and Child.” Devotion, repose comprehension, needing no translatior {no word or gesture—these one sees I lovely living pictures all over sunn; Italy, Perhaps the nervous Americar mothers may learn from the languor ous southern women, At any rate declares the Youths’ Companion, the; must preserve the world-old fashion o hugging the baby! Exacaerated Ideas. By a process of elimination, Le- grand Powers, chief statistician of the census, reaches the conclusion that our millionaires are not so plutocratic as they are popularly supposed to be, ‘The probabilities are that Mr, Powers is right, remarks the Buffalo Express. Everyone knows how the value of great estates ordinarily shrinks when their owners die and the property gets into the courts for valuation and dis- tribution, Popular ideas credited Rus- sell Saga with an estate of $100,000,- 000, yet ils value was officially given ufter his death at somewhere in the neighborhood of $60,000,000, quite suf. ficient, of course, to provide for one’s needs, but much less than be was gen erally credited with having. It is so with almost every very rich man whe dies; the public has had exaggerated ideas of his wealth, When we have sliced off anywhere from $10,000,000 te $40,000,000 trom the numerous — big estates, there ts quite a balance which must go to the rest of the people. Fez, where Mulat-Matid is reported to have been making hay of electric Ngbt fittings and everything else that hae the taint of Europe, has given Its name to the familiar Turkish equiva. Jent of a hat. At one time all fezzes came from Fez, Being unable to agree on the name of either Bryan or Taft for (heir four- year-old son because the wife is @ Republican and the husband a Demo- erat, Mr. and Mrs. 8. A, Johnson of Polk City, la, named the boy Jennings Howard Johnson, If the shah of Persia had been as wise as Abdul he might now be en- joying reasonable security of his per son, . is MAKEB GOOD “SUN PARLOR.” Young Matron Has Room with Deco- rations Entirely in Yellow. Every woman who takes a real in terest in her home is glad of little suggestions for beautifying It or for making work lighter. ‘To this end, the scrap book has been found to be a wonderful help and satisfaction, An old ledger will do very nicely, but a fresh volume ts better. In spite of the fact that Prof, Some- body claims to have discovered that too much sun in a room has an ill ef- fect upon the mind, the sun-parlor is a growing institution, One young ma- tron has hit upon a plan that she finds satisfactory. She has a corner apart: ment, north, and the entire place has ‘been done in a deep, soft yellow, pre- cisely the shade of sunshine. When the beams are reflected. as they are on every bright day, by the walls of the building opposite, the effect is not lat all unlike that of the sun parlor. ECONOMY IN THE HOUSEHOLD. 3eeming Trifles That Will Result in Cutting Down Bills. Water kept in bottles on the fee, in- stead of breaking the ice into the water, reduces ice bills. Grawing parsley, sage and other herbs in a kitchen window garden gives better seasoning at less money, Raise some okra in your garden, dried it keeps indefinitely and is the best flavor soup and bouillons can have. Cheap cuts of meat can be served palatably in stews and croqueties. - Cheese {an excellent substitute for meat, and there {is infinite variety in the ways of preparing it. | Serving but two vegetables at din. |ner is as fashionable as it {s econom- | ieal. | Buying olive oil by the gallon is oneé of the few times when wholesale pur | chases means saving. ete __ a» Eas oe Jon be HOUSEWIEE Sate To cover the pan in which fish Is cooking will make the flesh soft, Honey should be kept in the dark. If exposed to light it will quickly granulate, To raise the pile on plush sponge it with a little chloroform and it will Jook fresh and new again, Nails used in bathrooms and kiteh- ens on which damp cloths and towels may be hung should be dipped in en- smell, so that they may not leave rusty marks. ‘Yo clean silver, mix sweet oil and whiting to the thickness of a cream, put on with a soft cloth, wash tn hot soap suds and polish with a chamois skin or a piece of old soft Jinen, A cheap floor stain, which — will probably be tn demand during house sleaning, is wade by dissolving a tea spoonful of permanganate of potash ir one quart of boiling water, A darker wv iighter stain may be had by in reasing or decreasing the amount o} potash Wild Aople Jelly. ‘This was a new discovery for me last. year; perhaps there are others who do not know that wild sour ap ples will make beautiful jelly, Quar: ter the apples, cutting away any bad spots; do not remove the skin — or seeds; wash well, put into a kettle with endugh water to cover them; cook until tender, put into a jelly bag, let drain over night; measure the julee, allowing a cup of sugar to every cup of juice, put julce on stove, squeeze ina little lemon juice, let boll just 20 minutes from time {t com: menced to boil; In the meantime put ‘the sugar in the oven and heat hot ‘stirring oceastonally; when juice hat ballad 20 minutes put in sugar, let whole boil up once. This makes ¢ ent, wansparent jelly with a beau tful flavor,.~Boston Post, “THE LADIES STORE” Muskogee’s New Ladies’ Ready to Wear and -»>MILLINERY STORE-- We have the best goods for the least money ever shown in Muskogee. It will pay you to visit our store which is con- ceded to be the finest equipped and most modern of its kind in the entire Southwest. MAKE OUR LADIES REST ROOM YOUR HEADQUARTERS WHILE IN THE CITY SPECIAL DISCOUNT to out of town customers. We also pay express charges. Mail orders given our special attention SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED ELTON & HERRICK 315 West Broadway Muskogee, Okla. Succecsors To G, A. Bradley & GO. western Sales bs at Muskogee House, Wholesale & Retail Deul- | ers inFartn Machinery, Wasous, Buiggies, Harness | and all strap goods, Saddtys, Blankets & Robes. Kokomo Nails, Barb Wire & Field Fence. | FIRE PROOF SAFES We are in a position to accommodate our trade in mediunrand high class goods in all our line Prices always right. Calland let us figure with you, 824 45N, Main st. Muskogee, Okta. Drs. Brown & Randel Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists OUcuiists and Aurists for M.V.R.R, Co, Rooms over Postotiice —. 216 N. 3rd St. Phone 507. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA A B BELLIS 107 N, 3rd Street ous MUSKOGEE, OKLA. Complete line of PLUMBING and ELECTRI CAL GOODS, Estinates on work free of charge, Mail your orders or call when in the city, PHONE 173. A. B, BELLIS, MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA Cleans and Blocks STETSON Soft and ER HATS, makes them any size or shape, Send them by mail orexpress, Write for prices and particulars lo MAYS THE HATIER, 120 South Second street. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. ? THE QUEEN CITY PREMIUM CO. Wholesalers of Chinaware Specialties, Pre mium goods and advertising novelties, South- western distributors for the largest pottery and silverware companies in the United states’ 2 So, 2nd St. & 111 So. SCALES BUILDING Miscit; St! Pliote 10” MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. A steamer has arrived at New York with a cargo of Christmas toys. Now is the time to begin to do your Christ mas shopping. John D, Rockefeller says “his 1 come has been much exaggerated.” Well, we always thought that was an | exaggerated income. New York is going to have the larg: est apartment house in the United States, with flats for 128 families. The janitor will be a retired major general of course, ‘The Chicago man who desires to es tablish a bureau of longevity in con nection with the government might persuade Minister Wu to become nat uralized and take charge. That was poetic justice of the most Ideal order when a “lamb” in the Lon- don stock exchange started to shoot up the bulls and bears, and caused a panic of the primitive kind, A correspondent of the New York Sun says he killed a water rattlesnake a few days ago, It was “coiled up | 00 the water." Wasn't it coiled up on some Build a great deal stronger | than water’ The first woman trained nurse for the navy has been appointed, Hence- forth the naval hospital will lose half its terrors, while cases of heart trou ble among the sailor boys are expect ed to develop with alarming fre quency. Many of the Japanese porcelain | factories are not paying expenses, and “production has been reduced by 80 to 40 per cent. In Tsu-maki-mura 28 | of the 80 porcelain factories have sus- pended, owing to the decrease iu | American and Chinese imports. Consul Hunter Sharp of Kobe ad- vises that the value of the raw cotton imported into Japan during the first three months of 1908 was $18,249,446, against $18,312,576 during the same period last year, Owing to trade de- pression there is a congestion ia stocks. Since the war the great Nitsuil Trad ing Company of Japan has done an annual business of $100,000,900 with Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Scattered over the world the com- pany has 76 offices and 1,300 em- ployes. The company and its busi- ness are to be reorganized to sult the changed conditions. The women's citizen committee of Newport, Del., are renewing their ac- tivities in behalf of better sanitation for their town. In 1899 and 1900 these women raised a fund to put the town {n a sanitary condition. Now they find that the men have failed to keep the town in proper shape, so they bave started work egain. Prince Henry, brother of the Ger- man emperor, has invented an auto- matic window-washer. It is not for the relief of tired housewives, as one might at first suppose, but is to keep the rain wiped off the glass wind: break on the front of automobiles, so that the driver can see the road before him in a storm-~a sort of royal win dow-washer. | This {s about the first summer that we have not had a world’s fair somewhere, but we do not seem to | miss it. Nobody, so far as we know, is rising up and shouting in a loud, insistent voice: “Give us a world's fair or give us death!” As a people we | may not be easily satisfied, but we do ‘appear to know when we have had | enough world’s fairs. And here is Licut.Gen. Joscelipe Heneage Wodehouse, ex-governor of Bermuda, frankly testifying that the Bermudians are far behind us in the cultivation of the onion, As for the Bermuda lily, it long since yielded precedence to more beautiful Easter decorations of hume cultivation, What is there left of the ancient glory of Bermuda but its salubriousness ag @ winter resort? The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 50c. 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FOR REPRESENTATIVES Muskogee County JAMES KNOX, Boynton. ED. MERRICK, Muskogee. FOR FLOTORIAL REPRESENTATIVE Muskogee and Hoskell Counties CHAS. A. COOK, Muskogee. Republican Headquarters—Rooms 222, 223, 224 Missouri building. The election of the republican ticket in Oklahoma means a new deal hereafter. Vote it. It's the first time we ever had a chance to vote for a president. Vote the republican ticket and be with the victors. Stamp in the circle under the eagle and quit that means you have voted the republican ticket straight. Vate the ticket straight from top to bottom and you will have done your duty. A vote for Creager is a vote for good government. Vote for him and relp redeem the third district from the donothing rule of democracy. Vote for Harry Beeler and send a senator to Guthrie who knows how to do things. He is a staunch republican and will ably represent this district. A vote for James Knox means the sending of a first class republican to the legislature who will help undo the work of democrat and place wholesome laws in the statute. Don't forget to carry your registration papers with you when you go to vote. Be orderly. Don't raise any row at the polls. Vote and keep a safe distance from the polls. Judge Morrison, our county chairman, has made good. A lot of the jealous cusses who belong to no party predicted a failure in our county campaign, but Morrison, like the shrewd politician that he is, has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and will land every man on our ticket. He has proved himself to be a past-master in the political game. He has an organization at his back that cannot be duplicated in the state. Old Muskegee county is making good this year. --- We'e got "em whipped." They are on the run. Keep 'em going. Ed Merrick is elected now. He has a safe majority and will make a splendid representative. Great Muskogee, city and county will have a splendid worker and honest man and a good republican in the legislative halls when Merrick goes there. Chas. A. Cook, the old Roman, is making a whirlwind campaign and has the democrats on the jump. He has bearded the enemy in his den in Haskell county and whipped him to a standstill and in Muskogee county he is 1,000 to the good. His election is certain. This is our last issue before election. In our next issue we will give the news of the election of Mr. Taft as president and Creager as congressman from the third district of Oklahoma and in fact the election of the republican ticket in this county and state and the redemption of Oklahoma from the rule of democracy. The campaign is fast drawing to a close and Mr. Bryan is still maintaining his reputation for magnificent silence on all matters pertaining to the Negro vote. It is safe, therefore, for the Negro to conclude that Mr. Bryan stands by his declaration in favor of disfranchisement and Jim Crow cars. Walters! Ransom! Waldron! Stand up and tell the Negro voters what message of hope and consolation you bring them from Bryan, Ben Tillman, Hoke Smith, or the Democratic party. If you have none, then as ministers of the Gospel, go wrap yourselves in sack-cloth and ashes and do pennance for the base deception you are practicing on your people. As an evidence of the fact that in case of Bryan's election his chief advisers would be men who are the most bitter enemies of the Negro race, we have but to call attention to the fact that Mr. Bryan has called on Hoke Smith, and Ben Tillman to get into the State of Ohio and help to swing the vote, including the Negro vote, to the Democratic party. "The white man in the South has distranchised the Negro in self-protection. The white men of the South are determined that the Negro will and shall be distranchised everywhere it is necessary to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of carpet-bag rule." Wm. Jennings Bryan in his New York speech, 1908. "In favor, and if elected will urge with all my power the elimination of the Negro from politics." Hoke Smith. "We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot niggers. We are not ashamed of it." Senator Ben Tillman in the United States Senate. Some of our would-be leaders have been endeavoring to encourage the Negro to commit the same wrong of which he himself has too frequently been the victim. They have insisted that the Race should condemn President Roosevelt beyond pardon, for the one act in his whole public career which they consider a mistake and an injustice to the Negro soldiers. His manly stand in defense of the Race on countless other occasions; his broad and liberal utterances I nour behalf in public speeches and in executive messages are to count for naught by the side of this one—at most—mistake of judgment. This is not fair and the Negroes of this country do not and will not stand for it. The Negro voters on the third day of November will let President Roosevelt know; they will let Judge Taft know; they will let the Republican party know that their cup of gratitude is not empty and that their sense of justice and fair-play is as keen today as when during the days of the Rebellion, they were too noble of heart to injure defenseless women and children or to de- stroy unprotected property, but stood as faithful as sentinels and watchful guardians until the Republican Party declared Slavery to be No More. The indications are all in favor of the election of Judge Taft and Mr. Sherman and we are glad that the Negro vote will be on the side victory to the extene of 99 per cent of the nomal vote. Whe present in this edition the cuts of the men who have conducted the campaign which is now about to close, in such a business like and successful manner. When the Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock was selected by the National Committee as chairman, he was confronted by a condition that no other leader had been required to face. The policies of the administration, together with tacit understanding on the part of the candidates of the respective parties had made it impossible for great corporations to contribute anything toward the campaign. This sentiment developed until it gradually included men connected with great Trusts or corporations so that it is almost next to impossible to secure a large fund with which to conduct a great political campaign. But with remarkable business sagacity and power of initiative Mr. Hitchcock has conducted this campaign so intelligently and successfully that it will stand as a model for all future campaigns. It has been purely a campaign of education and Mr. Hitchcock is to be congratulated that his plan of campaign has at last been demonstrated to be the wisest that could have been adopted. The election of Judge Taft and Mr. Sherman is practically assured. The remarkable, almost sudden change of sentiment against Bryan and in favor of Judge Taft is almost unparalleled in the political history of this country. Judge Taft's personality and his frank and manly defense of his position while on the bench and the ease with which lie has exposed the fallacies of Mr. Bryan has won for him thousands of votes. This transformation in sentiment of the American people from Bryan to Taft is not alone a tribute totribute to this great and good man but is a display of the discriminating judgment on the part of the masses of the American people that speaks volumes for the political intelligence of the people. This is the third time that Mr. Bryan has tried to deceive the people into electing him president of the United States by visionary policies, impracticable economic principles and delusive arguments. His policies and the arguments by which he seeks to maintain them show him to be just the opposite of that great Kentucky statesman who declared that he would rather be right than president. Next in importance in this great political contest comes the Hon. Chas. Chas. Nagel, national committeeman from the state of Missouri. Mr. Nagel has had charge of the western headquarters and has acted in the capacity of Vice Chairman in Mr. Hitchcock's absence. Mr. Nagel has given especial attention to the Negro end of the campaign and as an evidence of the fact that the colored voter has not been over looked, we instance the appointing of Mr. Walter M. Farmer, member of the Speakers' Bureau, a position never heretofore given to a colored man. The negro newspapers for the first time, in this section especially, have been taken into account. We have employed on a regular salary, something over 15 colored persons at the headquarters, not including speakers and other workers. Mr. Nagel is a broad-minded man and a true friend of the Negro. The fact, therefore, that he asgiven charge of this branch of the work clearly demonstrates that the management of the campaign was anxious to assure the Negro voter that his interest would be in the hands of those who are especially concerned as to his welfare. Hon. A. V. Jones, the state commitee man, has done a great work for the party in tris campaign. He has been busy night and day working for success of the party and victory is now verching on his banner. He richly deserves the honor conferred upon him. Col. Wm. Higgins, the dean of the republican party in Washington county, has discovered and attempted to make public the only reason as yet advanced why C. E. Creager should be supported for congress. The colonel says Creager sohuld be supported because he never committed a murder. Jim Davenport will be "a man of the people," all right, after the third of November, and just one of the people, without any prefixes or suffixes to his name, while C. E. Creager will be entitled to write M. C. fater ris signature. The Big Third will be redeemed. Senator Jospeh M. Dixon is director of the speakers' bureau and as such has shown himself to be a man of excellent judgment and free from race prejudice. The colored men who have come in contact with him have nothing but words of praise for him. All the oldtime republicans are in line for the election and are working might and main for the whole ticket. Don't forget to go to church Sunday and after services whisper in the ear of every voter to get his neighbor and vote on Tuesday. Go to the polls early and vote, then go and hunt your friend. We need every vote to elect our ticket. We ca nand must make Muskogee county the banner republican county in the state of Oklahoma. Negro democrats are very few in this state and those few are without influence. The county of Wagoner must look to its laurels, for Muskogee county is after the place as banner republican county in the state. The election of a congressman in this district is a most important matter. But there is not a particle of necessity for any unseemingly fuss about it. We believe that a republican congressman, working in harmony with the administration and standing for exact justice to every interest and exact justice to every man regardless of his race or former condition, would represent the district honorably and be in a position to serve its eery interest as they should be served. We don't believe that Mr. Davenport's ability to "cuss" tre negro or to praise the checkered career of our erratic—that's as easy a word as we can use—governor, especially fits him for duty in the national law-making body. Publication Notice No. 524. In the District Court Court, State of Oklahoma, for Muskogee County Sitting at Muskogee. DONA ELLICK, Plaintiff. WILL ELLICK, Defendant. The defendant, Will Ellick, is hereby notified that he has been sued in the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, at Muskogee, by the above named plaintiff, Dona Ellick, whose petition in said case was filed in said Court on the 26th day of October, 1908, and unless you answer said petition or appear herein on or before the 6th day of December, 1908, the allegations in said petition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you divorcing sand plaintiff from you and for other proper relief stated in said petition. DONA ELLICK, Plaintiff. A. S. McREA, Attorney for Plaintiff Attest:—(Seal). TONY MATNEY. Clerk of the District Court. In Uncle Sam's Service. Under the kindly fostering care of the republican party, that wiped the stain of slavery from the Stars and Stripes, with the blood of statesmen, the colored race has established a world's record, in the progress of civilization and enlightened, aggressive citizenship. Today colorati men and women, to the number of 13,978 are occupying positions in the government service, under republican administration, and draw in, the aggregate, the sum of $8,032,355 annually from the public treasury. They are to be found in every position from that of common laborer to that or envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. Their salaries range from $600 to $10,000 a year, the latter sum being paid to our colored envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Haiti. Perhaps few colored people are aware that the number of Afro-Americans in the service of the government—exclusive of the army and navy—has more than doubled in the last four years, under a republican administration. Their aggregate pay has been increased from $3,000,000 in 1904 to more than $8,000,000 in 1908. PLANK IN Republican Platform The present republican platform contains this plank: "The republican party has been, for more than fifty years, the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry, and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. "We demand justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement, in letter and in spirit of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American, and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." The Hon. William H. Taft, in a speech in Plymouth church, Brooklyn recently said: "What the Negro and his friends demand is equality of enforcement of the law under the constitution." * * * AFRRO-AMERICAN VOTERS DEMOCRATS ATTEMPTING TO USE NEGRO ELECTORS AT CAT'S PAW. Progress of the Race Under Republi- can Rule—World Record is Established. The intelligent Negro does not worship false gods. He is thoroughly familiar with the condition of his brother in the south where democracy is in the saddle. He knows that at heart, the leader of the democratic party do not wish his association in politics, but only hope to use his mand to disgruntle him against the republican party, in order that they may, without benefit to him, be elevated into power. It does not need the declaration from the democratic party, that it is a white man's party, to convince the Negro with any brains, that his interest and future welfare and that of his race, lie in the hands of the republican party. Negroes Near Akin To The Monkey. Contrast these kindly sentiments of republicans with the following from democratic sources. W. J. Bryan in his speech at New York, 1908, said. "The white man in the south has disfranchised the Negro in self-protection; and there is not a republican in the north who would not have done the same thing under the same circumstances. The white men of the south are determined that the Negro shall be disfranchised everywhere it is necessary, to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of carpet-bag rule." Hoke Smith, who was a member of Cleveland's cabinet, and who is at present governor of Georgia, said: "I favor the elimination of the Negro from politics and if I am elected, I will urge this with all my power." Senator Tillman, in a speech in the 59th congress said: "Some of the Negroes are so near akin to the monkey that scientists are still looking for the missing ank." Judge Taft Negroes Best Friend That the Negro is showing a remarkable ability to recover his sober judgment under the most trying circumstances, and reach a conclusion more inharmony with his best interests, is shown by the way they are coming to the support of the republican ticket. They are beginning to realize that after all, Judge William H. Taft is one of their best friends and that a great wrong has been done him in holding him responsible for the discharge of the soldiers of Companies B, C and D of the 25th Regiment of the United States Infantry. The latest and most prominent convert to this conclusion is Gilchrist Stewart of New York. it will be remembered that it was Gilchrist Stewart who, as a member of the Constitutional league, started the Brownsville agitation; that it was through his instrumentality that a detective was sent to Brownsville to investigate the affair. It was Gilchirst Stewart who went through the country delivering speeches and collecting funds for the defense of the soldiers; and it was he who later prepared all the evidence for Senator Foraker, which was presented to the senatorial committee investigating the Brownsville affair. NEGROES Disfranchised Democratic Hypocracy. With defeat staring it in the face, without a real virile issue except those embodied in the "Peerless One," democracy is struggling to win in this present campaign, with the Negro vote in the north, and without the Negroe vote in the south. This seems to be the crowning climax of political idiocy. The Negro, disfranchised in the South by the democratic party. is expected to lick the hand that smites him, execute an about-face movement, and aid the democrats in swinging republican states of the north into the hands of his democratic oppressors! From the days of its birth, the democratic party has not only halted its boasted democracy at the color line, but has bragged about it. There is not a la won the statute books today for the benefit and protection of the Negro that was not placed there by Republicans in spite of the opposition of the democrats. Negro Race Has Flourished Undea the republican policies the Negro race has flourished as no race ever flourished before in the history of the world. The illiteracy of the race at the time of emancipation was almost complete. When the census of 1890 was taken, it showed that this illiteracy had been reduced to about 44 per cent. Italy today has 38 per cent of illiteracy; Spain, 68 per cent, and Portugal 79 per cent. These are all white countries with centuries of civilization behind them. There are 40,000 Negro students in higher institutions of learning, pursuing all branches from trade to classical and scientific courses. Forty thousand colored youths have graduated from secondary institutions of learning and 4,000 from colleges. The race has developed 30,000 teachers, 16,000 clergymen, 1,700 physicians and surgeons, 1,000 lawyers and 400 journalists and literary people. It has 200 institutions for higher education in the United States. In 1904 it owned property amounting to $7,100,000,000. In 1900 the farm property belonging to Negroes was valued at $200,000,000. It operates 746,715 farms and owns 187,797 farms, or about 25 per cent of the total. This is not a bad showing for a race which the democrats declare to be unfit for citizenship. The instincts of self-preservation demand that the American Negro vote for Taft and Sherman and a continuance of the republican policies. The announcement is made at the national republican headquarters that Gilchrist Stewart will take the stump for Judge William H. Taft. Charles H. Keating, assistant director of the speakers' bureau of the national headquarters at New York, advised Senator Dison that he has accepted the tender of Mr. Stewart's services and assigned him to West Virginia and Kentucky. Senator Dixon will probably make engagements for him in Illinois, Indiana and Kansas. Inasmuch as Mr. Stewart has offered his services gratuitously, the republican managers have concluded to use him and are inclined to believe that the Brownsville incident is likely to prove of little consequence in the future so far as the Negro is concerned. We call upon Mr. Bryan to tell the Negroes of this country what his attitude is and will be toward the Negro so far as his civil and political rights are concerned. Any Negro man who votes the democratic ticket this year is virtually saying that he is in favor of his own disfranchisement and that he does not care whether the women of his race are put in Jim Crow cars or cattle cars. Every Negro man should feel it his duty to vote at the approaching election. A vote for the republican ticket at this election means that the Negro is on the side of progress, of justice, and fairplay. The most vital is sue in this campaign so far as the Negro is concerned is protection in his civil and political rights. That there is a systematic effort on the part of the democrats in the south, encouraged by the democrats of the north, to disfranchise the Negro is apparent to every man who carefully studies the sentiment of the democrats of the south, as well as of the north. Whenever and wherever Judge Taft has had an opportunity of meeting the colored people he has made friends. On his recent trip through Missouri he stopped at Kansas City and made a speech at the Baptist church, also one at Allen's chapel. At both of these meetings the colored people were impressed with the seriousness of Mr. Taft's utterances and his genuine interest in their general welfare. Before he left the meetings resolutions were passed unanimously pledging him the support of the colored vote in that section. Bishop N. E. Parks Speaks. From reports and letters we receiving this week, the political situation among the Negroes throughout the country is assuming a more encouraging aspect. Below we print an interview by Bishop N. E. Parks of the A. M. E. church. "Our people are loyal to the republican party and have since Emancipation, as their record fully and completely shows. I am not of the opinion that the race will vote with the democratic party in November. While I recognize the fact that many of them in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas feel very keenly the wrongs that they have endured as well as the indifference which is now being manifest toward them, they, nevertheless understand there is absolutely nothing t obe gained by gonig to the democratic party, while there is much to be lost. "The position of Mr. Bryan and his party, upon every question involving the rights and privileges of the Negro as a citizen, are inimicable to our best interests and those of the republican party. We can not claim our self respect and support any party or man, or set of men who stand for class legislation in a republican form of government. That the democratic varty is married to class legislation, is a fact that no one of its advocates can deny. The Jim Crow law, that is a child of its creation, stands as a living attestation of my contention as well as the disfranchisement sets placed upon the statute books of very nearly all of the southern cities. That it is the avowed intention of the party, if given power to pass similar acts of disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws in the western and eastern states is evinced by the position taken by them in the present campaign in West Virginia and in the recent municipal elections held in Kansas City, 550. "I feel assured that if the national committee in the eastern and western states, where the Negro's vote has not been taken from him by the democratic party, will see to it that proper efforts are put forth to thoroughly awaken and enlighten him upon the issues in this campaign as well as assure him of the splendid platform of Mr. Taft who is no wrunning for President, the solid Negro vote will count for the republican ticket and William H. Taft will be elected with a republican house to carry out the policies enunciated in his platform." Think of a colored preacher in the state of Maryland claiming that he is intending to vote the Democratic ticket when the Democrats of Maryland are preparing to disfranchise the Negroes. A man in a coat stands in front of a bed, holding a baby. The man is looking at the baby, who is lying on the bed. There is a top hat on the floor. Doc Ahem—You seem to cough with considerable difficulty this morning. Patient—That's very strange. 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Once upon a time there was a very little boy who desired to go out for a walk with his nurse, but it was raining that day, so he couldn't. But he was consoled when informed that he might go the next day. Alas! When the next day came rain was still coming down without abatement. The little boy looked disconsolately at the heavens. "God is getting very careless," he said. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Nature Conquers Man. Man can get along without his cities and his clothes and his complicated tools and treasures; but all his vaunted wisdom and skill are set utterly at naught by the simple failure of the clouds to drop rain. 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"No," said the eminent scientist, "I have never seen a Plymouth rock hen lay a corner-stone, but I have frequently seen a pineapple layer cake." NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. George Robertson, in a 120-horse power locomobile, an American made machine, won the fourth Vanderbilt cup race on the Long Island course. The average speed of the winner was 64.3-5 miles an hour. Nine persons, comprising three hunting parties, are lost in the mountains of western Colorado. Among the number are three Denver society women. It is feared all of them have perished. An explosion occurred in a mine of the Pittsburg, Pa., Coal company while 800 men were at work but they all succeeded in making their escape. The loss it is said will reach $1,000,000. All the bank books used against C. M. Chamberlain formerly cashier of the Chamberlain banking house at Tecumseh, Neb., in his previous trial and depended on for his final conviction, have been stolen from the sheriff's office. Twenty-five men and women were injured in St. Louis as the result of a fight between a mob of Greeks and two policemen who attempted to arrest a Greek for fighting. The Y. M. C. A. building given by the Studebaker Brothers' Manufacturing company to South Bend, Ind., has been formally dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. Wallace H. Hopkins, a Chicago mining promoter, has been arrested in Seattle, Wash., on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. Much suffering among the sheep herders about Medicine Hat, Saskatchewan, caused by the recent storm, is reported. The United States transport Buford is detained at Nagasaki, Japan, with two cases of cholera on board. The Buford is en route to San Francisco from Manila. The Ohio Valley Improvement association at its meeting in Louisville, Ky., adopted resolutions calling on congress to appropriate $63,000,000 for the proposed dam and lock system in the Ohio river. The Central Branch line between Atchison and Clifton, Kan., is to be greatly improved. The track is to be newly balasted and 80-pound rails will The State bank of Heartwell, Kearney county, Nebraska, was raided by cracksmen the other night who made their escape with $3,400 of the bank's funds. take the place of the old 32-pound ones. With the thermometer at freezing following a heavy snowstorm the natural gas supply at St. Joseph, Mo., failed, causing much suffering among the people. Twenty-three students of the Savannah, Mo., high school were injured when the grandstand at the baseball park was blown down. The boys were at football practice when the storm came up and sought refuge in the structure. One of injured, Walter Warner, will probably die. R. Z. Taylor and Capt. Quinten Rankin, both lawyers of Trenton, Tenn., were lynched by a band of night riders while fishing at Reel Foot lake in that state. The attorneys were members of a stock company which controls the lake and had instituted suits against persons in the neighborhood. A prominent business block in Buffalo, N. Y., was recently destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $300,000. The American officers of the battleship fleet were guests of honor at a brilliant dinner and ball given by Premier Katsura at his residence in Tokyo. Samuel H. Moog, a meat dealer of Kansas City, was shot and killed in his store in broad daylight by a negro who made his escape. The Kansas tax commission has refused to reduce the assessed value of the property of the Rock Island Railroad company from $53,078,118. Complete returns from the referendum election in Cleveland, O., show that the three-cent fare franchise was defeated by the narrow margin of 605 votes. The total number of votes cast was 75,893, with 37,644 in favor of the franchise and 38,249 against it. Broughton Brandenburg, who was arrested at Akron, O., on a telegram from New York in connection with the Cleveland letters sold to the New York Times, has been released on $500 bail. During a dinner given by Baron Kaneko at Tokyo to the officers of the American fleet, Rear Admiral Sperry was presented with a picture of the landing of Commodore Perry's fleet in Japan. The frame of the picture was made of Oregon pine taken to Japan by Commodore Perry. Two Mexicans charged with fomenting a revolution against Mexico have been convicted in the federal court at El Paso, Texas. City officials of Cleveland, O., charge that 20,000 illegal votes were cast in the recent referendum election. If the claim is sustained a new election will be held. The federal court at St. Louis has refused the application of the M., K. & T. and 55 other western railroads for an injunction restraining the Interstate Commerce commission from putting into effect an order reducing rates on cattle. The report of the foreign mining experts who have been investigating the mining industry in this country, with important recommendations for minimizing the loss of life in coal mines, has been submitted to President Roosevelt. Perry Greathouse, a special policeman of Kansas City, Kani, shot and mortally wounded his 16-year-old daughter, who intercepted a bullet intended for her mother. Attorneys for Harry K. Thaw have taken an appeal to the federal court of appeals from the decision of Judge Young of Pittsburg who dismissed Thaw's application for a writ of habeas corpus. The Carnegie Hero Fund commission at its last quarterly meeting issued 48 medals besides $40,000 in cash donations to life savers. A number of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska persons were beneficiaries. Floods are reported in the Arkansas and Verdegris rivers in Kansas. Many bridges have been washed out west of Garden City. In the vicinity of Coffeyville considerable damage is reported. The second pipe line doubling the system of supply between the Kansas natural gas fields and Kansas City has been completed. Belated reports indicate that the storm of October 12 in the Philippines was the worst of which there is any knowledge of. The death list will reach over 300. Binding twine will be cheaper in Kansas next summer. Warden Haskell of the state penitentiary announces that he has purchased almost the entire supply of sisal for the prison plant at a much lower price than it has ever been bought before. Fifty-five separate shocks of earthquake were recorded on the seismograph at Manila in 12 hours recently. Because she was old and in poor health Miss Anna M. 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Taylor, aged 60, and Captain Quinten Rankin, both of Trenton, and Widely known lawyers, out of their hotel at that place and murdered the latter, fail to report the finding of Colonel Taylor's body, or any trace of his whereabouts. A man named Powell (who hauls fish from "The Log" to Hickman, is said to have been forced to accompany the mob, which numbered about 80 members. Powell had been staying at the hotel and when the night riders called everyone out and compelled them to line up. Powell, Colonel Taylor, Captain Rankin and the surveyor, whose name is unknown, are said to have been taken away, the others being permitted to return to their beds. Powell states, it is said, that after killing Rankin a vote was taken regarding the disposition to be made of Taylor. During the dispute Taylor made a dash and jumped into the bayou, starting to swim across it. A number of shots were fired at him, and in the confusion Powell slipped away and brought back the story of the escape. Searchers found the trees on the edge of the bayou clipped by bullets and there were deep footprints in the mud along the shore. On the other side of the bayou there was a single footprint. Governor Patterson arrived at Humboldt during the afternoon and held a consultation with citizens of Trenton, who came down to meet him. Governor Patterson announced that he had offered a $10,000 reward and would visit the scene in person. He left at 10 o'clock for Union City. Judge Joseph E. Jones called a special session of court at Union City which is in his circuit. He announces that he will have the grand jury empanelled at once and will have the court organized immediately. Governor Patterson will have the militia called in order to protect the sessions of the court if necessary. The trouble which resulted in the outrage was caused by the passage of an act by the legislature regarding fish in Reelfoot Lake, a short distance from Walnut Log. Night Rider disturbances over the same matter occurred about a year ago. Ever since then Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin have been in constant receipt of threatening letters to which they paid little heed. HASKELL'S LIBEL SUIT INVALID Nebraska Attorneys Say Action Against Hearst Has no Standing OMAHA: The $600,000 libel suit which Governor Haskell of Oklahoma filed here against Hearst is pronounced invalid by prominent attorneys who have examined the petition. The Nebraska laws allow no punitive damages in a libel suit. Three hundred thousand dollars of the suit in question is punitive. The petition is not accompanied by an affidavit of either Haskell or his attorneys, and under the Nebraska law has no standing in court until so accompanied. DALLAS, TEX.: Governor Haskell said, in relation to the above, that he had the best lawyers up there, and that their opinion was that the suit was not invalid. Sleet and Snow in Nebraska ALLIANCE, NEB.: The rain of Monday changed to snow in the night and with accompanying high wind the storm assumed the proportions of a blizzard. Stockmen were unprepared for the sudden change and there will be some suffering by cattle on the range. NOT UP TO THE RECORD. Boy Had, at Least Once Seen Larger Pedal Extremities. A pupil of one of the public schools in Chicago sends this communication: "Dear Sir: In our school this morning an amusing dialogue took place. "A primary teacher of Chicago, wishing to impress on her pupils the necessity of greater quiet, said: "I am a great deal larger than any of you, yet I don't make any noise when I walk around the room." "Perhaps,' remarked little seven-year-old Kenneth, 'you don't wear shoes." "Oh, yes, I do,' quickly replied the teacher; 'just look. Did you ever see any larger than mine?' "Kenneth surveyed them carefully. "Yes," he replied, slowly, 'once—in a show.'"—Waverly Magazine. Woman Chosen City Alderman. Mrs. H. J. Gates has just been elected one of the six aldermen of Magee, Tenn. For several years she has taken an active interest in the educational work of her town and wanted to be elected alderman because it would help her in this work. She is reported to have made about the most aggressive campaign ever witnessed in Magee, if not in Tennessee. The town people seemed pleased with her election, and even those who voted against her believe she will make a first-class alderman. Up-to-Date. A little girl six years old gave an afternoon tea to some of her friends, and she wished to make it as perfect a reproduction of those given by her mother as was possible. "What shall you give your friends to eat?" asked the same mother. "I don't know," replied the embryo aesthete, "unless I give them pink tissue paper and cambric tea. Uncle Tom says that's the most fashionable thing." Fujiyama Modernized. The beautiful mountain peak of Fujiyama, which is regarded by the Japanese as little short of sacred, is to be modernized by electricity. For the benefit of tourists the mountain top and the trail to it will be illuminated by electric lights. Hotels and refreshments houses will be erected on the mountain slope, as well as telephone and telegraph stations. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well with Change of Food. A great scientist has said we can put off "old age" if we can only nourish the body properly. To do this the right kind of food, of course, is necessary. The body manufactures poisons in the stomach and intestines from certain kinds of food stuffs and unless sufficient of the right kind is used, the injurious elements overcome the good. "My grandmother, 71 years old," writes a N. Y. lady, "had been an invalid for 18 years from what was called consumption of the stomach and bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. "I saw so much about Grape-Nuts that I persuaded Grandmother to try it. She could not keep anything on her stomach for more than a few minutes. "She began Grape-Nuts with only a teaspoonful. As that did not distress her and as she could retain it, she took a little more until she could take all of 4 teaspoonfuls at a meal. "Then she began to gain and grow strong and her trouble in the stomach was gone entirely. She got to enjoy good health for one so old and we know Grape-Nuts saved her life. "The doctor was astonished that instead of dying she got well, and without a drop of medicine after she began the Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. BY WAY OF COMPARISON. Youngster's First Efforts in the Realm of Natural History. Four-year-old Clyde was a precocious youngster—very talkative and a close observer. He and his father were strolling through the meadows one morning when Clyde observed, for the first time, some tadpoles in a pond. He waded in and cried out in delight: "Oh, father, what are they?" "Tadpoles, son," the father replied. "Please, father, let's take them all home with us, then come back and find the mamma and papa, and we'll have the whole family in our pond at home." The father explained how impossible this would be, and as he walked on a few steps a large ugly frog hopped across their path. Clyde's father said: "Look, son, perhaps there is the papa." Clyde was very thoughtful. He looked at the frog, then at his father, then at himself and exclaimed: "Well, father, was there ever so much difference between me and you?" BABY'S ITCHING HUMOR. Nothing Would Help Him—Mother Almost in Despair—Owes Quick Cure to Cuticura. "Several months ago, my little boy began to break out with itching sores. I doctored him, but as soon as I got them healed up in one place they would break out in another. I was almost in despair. I could not get anything that would help him. Thea I began to use Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and after using them three times, the sores commenced to heal. He is now well, and not a scar is left on his body. They have never returned nor left him with bad blood, as one would think. Cuticura Remedies are the best I have ever tried, and I shall highly recommend them to any one who is suffering likewise. Mrs. William Geedling, 102 Washington St., Attica, Ind., July 22, 1907." A NEW CURE. Jim—What's Jack trying for his rheumatism, Bill? Bill—Swearing. TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children, 60c. Two-thirds of a woman's worry is due to her continuous efforts to have her way. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Duty is the sublimest word in language, and sums the whole of life.—Lee. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKACHE 375 "Guaranteed J. W. ADAMS 111 SOUTH SECOND STREET, BROWN BUILDING HOSIERY SALE Men's Women's and Children's A RICH HARVEST OF FALL DRESS GOODS: This opening exhibition of Autumn and Winter Dress abrics is attractive for two reasons:1. This is a wonderful season for beautiful dress fabrics. 2. Here are the most beautiful fabrics that can be obtained at their prices. We have been fortunate in buying all the best approved weaves in all the lovely new colors-All shades at low prices. See them before the assortment begins to break-We have the finest line of Ladies' coats and Tailor made suits in the city. Your taste will approve the style. Ladies' $12. $18 and $25 suits for $8,00 $12.50 and $15.00. LONG COATS FROM $5 UP. We carry everything that is usually carried in a first class Dry goods store. J. W. ADAMS. 111 South 2nd Street, Brown Building. THE NEW PETTICOATS Silk Petticoats. Special values, $5 to $7 Cotton Taffeta and Sateen petticoats with a true silky lustre and as good cut as the silk. Dust ruffles and over rufflers, generous flare and smooth hips. Special values, 98C to $2.5 Silk Petticoats. Special values, $5 to $7.50 Cotton Taffeta and Sateen petticoats with a true silky lustre and as good cut as the silk. Dust ruffles and over rufflers, generous flare and smooth hips. Special values, 98C to $2.50 Men's W Dependable grades to stand service and the Dependable dyes—Hermsdorf dyes that ne crock. Dependable comfort—Properly proportione smoothed—Seamed or seamless. Dependable values—the lowest prices curr A RICH HARVEST OF K Dress abrics is attractive for two reasons:— ful fabrics that can be obtained at their pri new colors—All shades at low prices. See and Tailor made suits in the city. Your ta LONG COATS FROM $5 J. W. ADAMS HOSIERY for Women's price and the laundry. ives that never fade or proportioned—Soft, ess. prices current. OUT OF FALL DRESS to reasons:—1. This is a wonderful and their prices. We have been f prices. See them before the assor . Your taste will approve the st OM $5 UP. We carry ever AMS, 111 Sor Dependable grades to stand service and the laundry. Dependable dyes—Hermsdorf dyes that never fade or crock. Dependable comfort—Properly proportioned—Soft, smoothed—Seamed or seamless. Dependable values—the lowest prices current. republican ticket in Oklahoma, addressed not long ago a letter to Mr. Bryan that put the latter's sincerity to a severe test. Mr. Bryan received the letter, but did not reply to it. Keenan pledged himself to vote for Mr. Bryan if the latter would make public his views on any of seven proposals. Mr. Keenan's offer was as follows: 1. State if you approve in a general way the course of southern sentiment on the race question, as indicated by constitutional and legislative enactments on the suffrage question respecting franchise, and if you would approve a change in the national constitution so that this program could be said to be within and not without the constitution. If you approve this course of your southern allies I will support you for having the courage to say so; if you do not approve this course of the "solid south," and will say so, I will support you for having the courage to tell them wherein they are wrong. The thirteenth amendment to the federal constitution abolished slavery; the fourteenth gave civil rights to the freed people; the fifteenth prohibited suffrage on disqualification on account of race. 2. If you believe these amendments incorrectly prescribe the political and civil rights of the Negro race, and will indicate the error, I will support you for having the courage of your convictions to speak on the subject. On the other hand, if you believe that these amendments correctly define the civil and political rights of the Negro race; then I will support you for having the courage to say so. 3. If you will give your approval --- --- --- William J. Bryan and his national democratic campaign committee are covertly attempting to secure the support of negro voters. In this extremity to force Mr. Bryan's election upon the country, his campaign managers find themselves close to a powder magazine. They fully understand the attitude of democrats in southern states o the Negroes. Mr. Bryan and his managers, however, are hopeful that the Negro votes in northern demothey may utilize a certain portion of eratic states, and even in northern republica natates, without its being discovered by the democratic voter of the south. It would be interesting to know in detail just what Mr. Bryan and his managers are offering Negroes in exchange for their votes. If it be patronage, the southern democrat will have a reckoning on that score at a later day. If patronage has been promised with no intention of keeping the promise, Mr. Bryan and his managers would stand discredited as tricksters and political swindlers. If not patronage, the only other offer would be money, anad it cannot be believed that Mr. Bryan would indulge in that kind of thing. The truth is, Mr. Bryan and his managers have nothing to offer the negro in exchange for his vote. They cannot give the Negroes office, and they would not dare give them anything else, eben if the Negro would be willing to accept it. Though seeking votes, Mr. Bryan does not dare publicly to declare his views on questions that affect the Negro race. Bruce L. Keenan of Tahlequa, nominee for presidential elector on the E. C. B. B. Y SALE and Childs Boys' and Girls' heavy, black 25 cts. values at Ladies' 35 cts. mercerized, pink hose at Men's 25, 35 & 50 cts. fancy GOODS: This opening exe tial season for beautiful dress fabric fortunate in buying all the best ap tment begins to break—We have style. Ladies' $12, $18 and $25 su rthing that is usually carried in South 2nd Street, Boys' and Girls' heavy, black, garter top hose 25 cts. values at.....15 cts. Ladies' 35 cts. mercerized, black, blue, brown and pink hose at.....24 cts. Men's 25, 35 & 50 cts. fancy hose for 10, 18, 24 & 39 cts. to Oklahoma senate bill No. 1, declaring that the immediate safety and peace of the state of Oklahoma depends upon separating the Negro from the white man and the Indian in railroad waiting rooms and passenger coaches, then I will support you provided you will have the courage at the same time to say why you never thought it necessary to advocate the "Jim Crow" railroad laws and separate schools in your own state of Nebraska. 4. If you believe there is a Negro issue in the south, and define what that issue is so that there may be a moderately fair understanding of the issue, then I will support you or having the courage you may have in such a task. 5. If you will make clear that there is any national political issue on the Negro question, pointing out where the northern and southern democrats are united, and that this issue is opposed to a like issue of the republicans, then I will vote for you for your discernment in being able to find such an issue in national politics. On the other hand, if there is no defined issue between the parties, marking a living and distinct national policy, and you will tell your southern adherents that such is the case I will support you for this act of courageous candor. 6. If you will come to the south and make speeches to the negroes on the issues of political economics or if you will have published addresses along the line of your interview, ap the question of the tariff, for example, pealing to the negro for his support on and will circulate these political documents, among the colored race, to in- SUPREME MILLINERY VALUES We sell Trimed hats for their intrinsic worth and not merely for their appearance. We give you the best in quality as well as in style. --- Children's black, garter top hose 15 cts. black, blue, brown and 24 cts. hose for 10, 18, 24 & 39 cts. Exhibition of Autumn and Winter cats. 2. Here are the most beaut- proved weaves in all the lovely the finest line of Ladies' coats uits for $8,00 $12.50 and $15.00. a first class Dry goods store. Brown Building. fluence his vote by "appealing to his intelligence as well as his patriotism." then I will vote for you for this act of high devotion to duty. 7. Men like Senator Tillman, who say that the Negro has no right to any franchise, and that to control the Negro it is necessary to use the shotgun, the bull-whip, and the educational and grandfather restriction, and that when these fail other means will be invented to prevent the negro from voting, certainly must be facing an issue that requires the use of such measures. If not, the areattempting to overthrow aggressive and outspoken leaders of the south, representative, and not exceptional, and a devoted adherent of yours, will you say just to what extent you share his views on this question? If you will be explicit where in you agree and wherein you disagree with Senator Tillman, I will support you. This would involve your saying just what franchise a Negro is entitled to, if any. Creager's Maiden speech is a gem. As congressman from the fighting 3rd district of Oklahoma he will make good. The voters can now see the difference between a real man and donothing Jim. This county, the home of Mr. Creager, is a Republican county and we can, must and will give him a thousand majority. We must get out the 600 Republican voters that staid at home last fall, when this is done the victory is won. ```markdown ```